August 26, 2026
Aqua Blue Public Beta Is Open
Aqua Blue is now open for public beta. Sign in with Google or Microsoft to try it.
Aqua Blue Blog
Notes on AI teams, repeated office work, and practical business help.
August 25, 2026
How to Get TikTok Shop API Access for AI Automations and Workflows
A practical guide to creating a Custom TikTok Shop app, choosing the right service category and API scopes, finding your credentials, and setting up a development shop.
August 12, 2026
Creator Affiliate Workflow v1.1: Review Before You Sync, Catch Every Order, and Add TikTok Shop
A practical upgrade to a Shopify and Instagram creator workflow: review changes before they reach Google Sheets, paginate every API request, and use TikTok Shop exports when direct API access is not an option.
July 28, 2026
How to Manage Creator Campaigns in a Spreadsheet Without Burning Out Your Team
How can you automate order syncing, delivery checks, creator deliverable tracking, and reminder emails without replacing your existing spreadsheet? Using Shopify, Instagram, and Google Sheets, this post breaks down a workflow you can build yourself.
July 24, 2026
OpenAI Hacked Hugging Face. Science Fiction Just Became Real.
To solve a single test problem, OpenAI's AI escaped its isolated environment and hacked into Hugging Face. The scariest part is not that it went rogue, but that it was diligently completing its task the entire time.
July 17, 2026
Every Seller Running Creator Campaigns Ends Up with a Monster Spreadsheet
Creator campaigns span storefronts, social platforms, sample shipments, posts, and attribution. Sellers keep the truth in a spreadsheet—the real opportunity is automating the work around it.
July 6, 2026
Why We Need Deterministic AI, and How Aqua Blue Builds It
AI agents are powerful because they can improvise, but that same freedom makes them risky. Aqua Blue uses AI to design workflows, then lets software run them deterministically.
June 29, 2026
Batch Crop Product Images with AI
Fashion and apparel product photos often need to be cropped by hand before they fit store listings. Aqua Blue lets you describe the cropping rule in plain language and automate that image workflow.
June 23, 2026
How to Automate Monthly Excel Reports
If your team spends every month exporting data, cleaning spreadsheets, checking budget variances, and updating the same Excel report, you can teach the workflow to an AI employee once and generate the report from monthly files.
June 14, 2026
Make AI Employees Reliable and Flexible
Not every task can be planned perfectly in advance. Aqua Blue AI employees can pause when something unexpected comes up, collect your input in a clear form, and then continue working.
June 4, 2026
We Took Third Place at the OpenAI/Kernel Hackathon with an AI Team Prototype
At my first hackathon, our team demoed an AI team concept for small businesses.